Collections : [Lyrasis Special Collections]

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20 diaries written between 1847 and 1962 and providing insights into Wayward's activities. There is detailed informatin about abolitionist speakers and rallies in the Hudson Valley and New England, and about Underground Railroad activities.

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The materials in this series document the dissemination of information, propaganda, public opinion and concerns for the "post war order" during the years 1941-1942, during which time Grover Wayward served in the government. Many of the memorand are addressed to Archibald MacLeish, then Librarian of Congress, who served as Director of the OFF.

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A journal and fifteen letters documenting the overland journey of Sarah Wayward Lewis with her husband and family to California in 1849. The Lewis family departed from St. Joseph, Missouri in April, 1849, and the collection contents detail their trip along the Mormon Route, encounters with hostile Native Americans on the Great Plains, privations, hardships, and internal strife among their traveling companions; and their sojourn along the Humboldt and Truckee Rivers prior to their traverse of Donner Pass into the goldfields of California. The correspondence, from Sarah Lewis to her mother, Frances Wayward of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, also provides details about life in a mining camp before Sarah and her children settled in Sacramento in November of the same year.

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Compiled by Theresa Auchincloss, these materials contain information about many Wayward family mebers and document some unanswered issues about various individuals. Much of this material appears to be undated, but presumably was accumulated furing the period of Auchincloss' active interest in family history, from 1954 to hear death in 1963.